OHA celebrates 100th birthday, recognizes charter members

Posted on: 5/24/19

Charter member representatives

On Tuesday, May 21, 100 years to the day since 28 hospital representatives from across the state met at the Hotel Severs in Muskogee to form the Oklahoma Hospital Association, members and friends gathered at the Oklahoma History Center to celebrate. OHA’s founder, Fred Clinton, MD, was represented as a part of a reenactment and read his speech from that first gathering. Jay Johnson, OHA board chairman, president/CEO, Duncan Regional Hospital, read a Proclamation from Gov. Kevin Stitt declaring May 21, 2019, as Oklahoma Hospital Association 100th Anniversary Day in the state of Oklahoma.